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STRAT/HAL has never gone back to replay games that went "askew".
I sense that the ballpark "weather" factors are part of a normalization programming element that STRAT has used over the years, and it just came to light because they made some changes to it and made some errors and it surfaced.
Quite a few years back, one of the top owners here in the ATG game, was affected by a "bug" and lost some very important games. This owner complained to STRAT, and an apology was given, but the games were not replayed. STRAT then awarded him 10 game credits, which seemed generous, until the owner realized after playing all ten of those seasons, that every one of those teams failed miserably, not a single one made the playoffs, and this with an owner that goes to the playoffs most of the time.
The owner is still today certain, that those 10 credits were totally bogus, and that STRAT did something to ensure the owner in question would not be winning any championships with those credits.
It would seem only right that the owners, who pay to play, would have full knowledge of what the actual factors are.
I believe that Owners should have the right to know what modifiers and "normalization" factors and other black box programming factors are being used, how they are being used, and what the effects are.
Otherwise, we are playing a rigged game. pure and simple.